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Questions tagged [privoxy]

Questions that relate to this non-caching Web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering Web pages and removing advertisements.

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How can i configure Tor with bridge and privoxy to proxy entire system

Accessing to some repository and website for sanctioned countries always is a big challenge for developers. I try to find the best and easiest way to proxy entire system in Ubuntu with Tor, privoxy and bridge.
Saman Salehi
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Why does Privoxy needs a restart at boot?

I have an Ubuntu 10.04 installed and I installed Privoxy: apt-get install -y privoxy Okay, it works great with my rules, fine. When I boot up my desktop PC I can see that Privoxy is started, it runs, great. But when I want to view webpages through…
LanceBaynes
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UFW Rules Prohibiting APT-GET and other functions

I just installed Privoxy and Dansguardian to act as a proxy/content filtering service. The tutorial called for the rules below to be added to the UFW before.rules file /etc/ufw/before.rules: -A ufw-before-output -m owner –uid-owner root -j ACCEPT -A…
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how to insall and configure privoxy in ubuntu 14.04?

which is the best way to install configure privoxy in ubuntu 14.04 as adblock plus is really heavy and makes pages like facebook to be very slow even on a computer with good configuration. please help me out to configure the privoxy . here is the…
gunjan parashar
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proxy disconfiguration after using privoxy

Used privoxy for some time, and uninstalled it afterwards. Now software installation from the terminal is using the privoxy data, with messages like: Failed to fetch http://... Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111:…
nightcod3r
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How to set HTTPS proxy in Privoxy?

How can I set an HTTPS proxy with authentication in Privoxy to use in Proxifier?
Ali6049
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Use privoxy to forward traffic based on IP similar to Proxifier

My colleague shared his configuration. He is using a Mac. He is connected to a VPN using "open-vpn". Then he uses Proxifier to forward traffic to proxy.test.cloud:2128 as seen in the image below. Proxifier settings: I am using Linux with open-vpn…
Talha Latif
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How to get Opera work correctly with Privoxy?

I use Privoxy and recently switched back to Opera as browser. Anything is fine, but one thing is annoying: Everytime I start the computer I have to restart privoxy (sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart) or Opera shows an error, that it cannot reach the…
Mnementh
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How to use DansGuardian as a whitelist?

Set up privoxy and DansGuardian. Followed THIS guide for the main setup, and THIS to see how whitelisting can be done. In the bannedsitelist file I set a blanket block (using **). Then in the exceptionsitelist I added a few sites to test with, and…
MrAxlee
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Bypass Authenticated HTTP Proxy :Ubuntu

Is there any way to bypass authenticated http proxy to something like 127.0.0.1:port, so that we could use it any application, simply by filling out the proxy 127.0.0.1:port (which could be used for applications that don't have options of filling…
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Is anyone *successfully* using Privoxy on 24.04 or 24.10?

I installed Privoxy from the standard built-in repository. I rebooted. It is running. I have set my proxy settings, in the system control panel, and in my browsers. It is being ignored, in Waterfox and Firefox and Chrome. Are any additional steps…
Liam Proven
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Privoxy stripping CSS from Yahoo Mail

I'm currently trying to get Privoxy working as a general filtering solution and the majority of its working fine, however there's an issue where with Yahoo Mail it's stripping all the CSS. I've attempted a few things such as { allow-ads } and…
Nicholas Smith
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Privoxy still blocks my pip install comand even though it's not installed anymore

I had privoxy installed on Ubuntu 20.04 and then I uninstalled it using apt remove privoxy. Right now there isnt any directory or file named privoxy or service named privoxy but when I try to install a pip or yarn package in terminal it tells me it…
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